Eduard Heinrich von Flottwell

Eduard Heinrich von Flottwell (23 July 1786-28 May 1865) was the Prussian Oberpraesident of the Grand Duchy of Posen from 1830 to 1841 (succeeding Antoni Radziwill and preceding Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Roitzenburg), Minister of Finance from 1844 to 1846, and Minister of the Interior from 1858 to 1859.

Biography
Eduard Heinrich von Flottwell was born on 23 July 1786 in Insterburg, East Prussia, Prussia (present-day Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia). He studied law at the University of Konigsberg and entered the civil service of Gumbinnen in East Prussia. After the Napoleonic Wars, he aided in the rearrangement of politics in the West Prussian city of Danzig (Gdansk) alongside Theodor von Schon and in 1830 he was made the Oberpraesident (governor) of the Grand Duchy of Posen in present-day Poland. Flottwell replaced Antoni Radziwill's whose brother led a revolution against the Prussians in Poland. Flottwell began standard schooling policies and Germanized much of Poland, and he was governor until the end of his term in 1786.